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1. "Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small."Author: Barbara Ann Kipfer

2. "Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."Author: Edward Hopper

3. "In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature."Author: Giorgio Vasari

4. "My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."Author: Hans Hofmann

5. "What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know what is really excellent, and venture to give it expression; and that is saying much in few words. To-day I have had a scene, which, if literally related, would, make the most beautiful idyl in the world. But why should I talk of poetry and scenes and idyls? Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?"Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

6. "How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, the work of the painter is nobler than that of nature, its mistress."Author: Leonardo Da Vinci

7. "Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects."Author: Nigel Dennis

8. "Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."Author: Paul Cezanne

9. "Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself."Author: Ray Comfort

10. "Painting is by nature a luminous language."Author: Robert Delaunay

11. "Hans then asked him about painting from nature; Jackson...bluntly offered a phrase that entered Village lore, "I am nature."Author: Ross Wetzsteon

12. "Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind."Author: Theodore Robinson

13. "People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast."Author: Thomas Kincade

14. "Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism."Author: Walter Benjamin

15. "Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument."Author: William Morris Hunt

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